Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Gelston Floyd Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • John Gelston Floyd 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Backus Kirkland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 May 1841 
  • Birth Location:
  • Utica, Oneida, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Nov 1903 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Julia Floyd DuBois
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Jun 1870 
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  • Child:

  Cornelia DuBois Floyd (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Union Civil War veteran

    John G. Floyd took part in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in the 145th N.Y. Volunteers.

• Additional marriages for John Gelston Floyd Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Janet Tillotson Montgomery
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1898

• Sources for John Gelston Floyd Jr.

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1904, Vol. 35, p. 67, Obituary for John Gelston Floyd.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 23.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 143.
  • ⁴ Wheeler, William Ogden, The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his . . ., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1907), 369.

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